Sunday, December 24, 2006

Happy Holidays my crew and my dogs. Here is Dickie Greenleaf:Bong & A Blintz. The first mix from the DG series. It was made exactly 4 years ago this week to be given out to friends as holiday gifts. The idea was to put together a mix of all the songs I was stoked on at the time regardless of genre. Like an elementary school mixtape but done in Pro Tools. Lots of good music. Tracks from: Devin The Dude, Le Knight Club, Beck, Green Velvet, DJ Quik, Basement Jaxx, Ron Isley, Johnny Cash, Tommy Guerrero... good times.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

My homie Rosie called me yesterday and said that he was listening to a house mixtape I made in '97 and there was some song with a dude talkin about vibes on it that was crazy hot. It could only be one song. I first heard this on Boo Williams "Strictly Jazz Unit" mix from the same year. Me and the homies were buggin out on how dope it was. So funky, so jazzy. The "dude" on it is no other than Roy Ayers narrating his way through this Mousse T produced jazzy house number. On it he claims to have not felt so funky since "Runnin' Away"! Wow! Big statement. I will say that his vibe solo on this can stand up there with the one from said classic jam.

Monday, December 18, 2006

Bassbin Twins is the shit. I like 99% of the entire discography and I have that 99% on wax. This joint is from the first EP. Jungle/Reggae/Rave/Breaks/Hip-Hop/Dub/house shit. Peep the new single from BBT on iTunes, it's called Gun Down and it's funky shit fo sho. It's on Adam Freeland's Marine Parade Records. They also put out a rather firey double album called Bassbin Twins vs Marine Parade. Buy some music for once.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Random 12" that more or less went unoticed. I wanna say I heard it on a DJ Craig G mix from that time. I always liked it. Could be that I'm a huge fan of Black Rob, could be the loops from Who Got The Props (Ronnie Laws) and Goin Back To Cali (Zapp). Either way, the man known then as Puff Daddy did what he does with this and it'll always have a place in the pre-11PM set.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

I heard this in a podcast about a year back and it was listed as : "Rise And Fall (Colder's Black Shirt N Green Weed Version)." Pretty sweet name for a remix if you ask me. When I eventually found the 12" it was titled Colder Remix, kinda boring. Colder has been known to make some pretty stoney shit but this is just straight up freaky dubbed the fuck out house music. If you don't like to trip out you might flip out. Word is bond.

Friday, December 8, 2006

About a year ago I did a mixtape for the clothing company The Hundreds. They made 1000 cd's to be given out at Magic in Feb of last year. The remaining copies were sold exclusively a Turntable Lab LA. It's all Classic LA rap joints from Dogg Pound, NWA, Cypress Hill, CMW, Above The Law and way more. .zip includes full cd at 128kbps, artwork and tracklist naming the 65 tracks used for the mix. It was a labor of love and I rep wessyde all day homie, so enjoy.

Thursday, December 7, 2006

This record is the shit. Fuck those biters from Snap! 45 King with the ill techno (as it was called back then) beat and Chill Rob G is one of the most overlooked MC's of that era. This is the only version of The Power that should ever be played. It's gettin kinda hectic y'all.

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Just as Columbia was getting ready to drop 50 from the label, proving unable to market a guy who would soon be one of the biggest rappers ever, they pressed this white label promo. I heard DJ Enuff drop it at drive time one day and bugged on the BDP sample. The 12's came a couple days later from Sony. They were just blank. No one sheet or explanation. Curtis reveals in his shout outs that it is produced by Erick Sermon, and it's got N.O.R.E. add-libbing on the hook with some real classic What!?What?! action. Watch out for the thugged out Tom's Diner interpolation as well.

Sunday, December 3, 2006

There is a totally sweet thread going down at fathertronix revolving around french house. If you're into this shit please get in there and throw some doo-doo at it. This was one of my offerings to the thread so I figured I'd throw it up in here while the link was alive.

Saturday, December 2, 2006

Diggers will know the Extra T's from "E.T. Boogie" & "Corn Flakes" which were sampled by Busta Rhymes & Prince Paul respectively. Basically, this is their other song. Between 82 and 83, Sunnyview released three 12"'s which would be The E.T.'s entire catalog. One group member, Freddy Stonewall, had some early 80's jams on T.K. Disco and produced "Porno Freak" for Blowfly. The other Extra T, Henry Stone, is a much deeper cat and the actual founder of T.K. This song is really fuckin' sweet. Flash the night away.